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Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry by Prof. Dr. Irmtraud Huber, Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry explores the question of poetry’s relation to time and argues that this relation is historically contingent – as the concept of time changes, so too do the shaping forms and definitions of poetry. Victorian literature provides a rich testing field for its hypothesis, since the nineteenth century saw momentous changes in the ways people thought about…

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Conference: Postcolonial Infrastructure

The department of British and American Studies will host the 2023 annual conference of the German Association of Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS). More than 100 scholars from around the globe will come to Konstanz to present current reserach on the conference topic, "Postcolonial Infrastructure." Members of the university can attend most events for free.

Humboldt Fellow Joins Department

Dr. Olusegun Titus (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria) is joining the American Studies department as a guest researcher. Sponsored by Prof. Dr. Timo Müller, Dr. Titus has won a prestigious Georg Forster Stipendium from the Humboldt Foundation to pursue his research about the negotiation of environmental issues in Nigerian music.

Project Launch: "Off the Road"

Meldung: Today the ERC-funded research project "Off the Road: The Environmental Aesthetics of Early Automobility" celebrates its official launch. Led by Prof. Dr. Timo Müller, a team of researchers will examine how road literature from the early decades of automobility influenced literary modernism and the perception of the environment.

WRECKS von Neil LaBute

Freitag, 20. Januar 2023

19 bis 21 Uhr

Kulturbühne St. Johann, Brückengasse 1b, 78462 Konstanz

18.07.2022 "To purify the dialect of the tribe": Intertextualität im Dialekt. Autorenlesung mit Helmut Haberkamm anlässlich der akademischen Feier zur Verabschiedung von Prof. Dr. Silvia Mergenthal

"To purify the dialect of the tribe": Intertextualität im Dialekt. Der fränkische Dialektautor Helmut Haberkamm und seine literarische Anverwandlung angloamerikanischer Songlyrik und Poesie. Autorenlesung mit den Originaltexten und den fränkischen Adaptionen.

18.07.2022, 18.45 Uhr in A 701